I mean, that pattern is pretty common in the micro service world. Services for things like authz, locking, logging/tracing, etc. are often centralized SPOFs. T

I mean, that pattern is pretty common in the micro service world. Services for things like authz, locking, logging/tracing, etc. are often centralized SPOFs. There are certainly ways to mitigate the SPOFiness of each of those cases, but that doesn’t make having them an antipattern.